Goodbye Nigeria
“Except in the eyes of the extremely naive and incurable swindlers in the corridors of power, this country has already collapsed; only that the horror of its probable disintegration would…
President Jonathan, 2015 & Eligibility Question: Lessons from America
In my view, notwithstanding the view expressed by Prof. Ben Nwabueze, the major challenge facing President Goodluck Jonathan with regards to the 2015 presidential election, more than his electability, is…
How Lagos Broke Its Own Laws on Deportation
In a recent intervention on the illegal deportation of beggars and the destitute by Lagos, Anambra and some other state governments, I demanded for a new urban renewal policy that…
Editorial: PDP and Democratic Principles
The turn of events which saw the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), broke into two major factions during its mini-convention last weekend, in Abuja, is disgraceful and totally condemnable, to…
Editorial: Suntai and Absentee State Governors
It has now become an all-too-familiar spectacle: a governor falls sick and is hospitalized and the entire state goes to the hospital bed with him; the governor travels abroad for…
ASUU Strike and Question of United Struggle
For more than eight weeks now, Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has been on strike action to press home their demand for implementation of 2009 agreement with federal government,…
Between the return of a governor who survived an air crash and a boy who dared to fly.
Did you read the article by Tim Newmann entitled End of an Assignment that clinically analysed how the system works in Nigeria just from a Lagos point of view? Well,…
How Arik Stowaway Boy survived.
You must have read about Daniel Ihekina, the stowaway kid on the Arik flight from Benin to Lagos over the weekend and how such an incident could happen in one…
Editorial: Abubakar Shekau, Dead or Alive?
The leader of the most violent faction of the Islamist terrorist group, Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau may be dead, again. But the credibility of the claim by the Joint Task…
Questioning the sincerity of ASUU
The threat to academic stability in the nation’s ivory towers because of the current strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has attracted headlines in the dailies. The…